After long years of looking askance at remote workers, the pandemic forced law firm managers to reconsider that stance.
Now, contractors (including virtual and offshore staff) are just as common in the legal environment as anywhere else in the modern economy.
We brought an expert in the space onto the Non-Eventcast podcast — Brett Trembly, the co-founder and CEO of GetStaffedUp — to talk over how lawyers can make the right choices about bringing on remote staff.
We begin by asking Brett about his founder’s story — how GetStaffedUp came to be (11:24) — which included some additional anecdotes about Brett’s life as a practicing lawyer (8:47). Of course, we had to cover the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on how we got here (14:47).
Next, we talk about the difference between hiring U.S.-based talent versus offshoring (17:24), before covering some of the technology concerns that exist for remote staff (21:15), including the value of cloud-based software for these arrangements (24:45).
Naturally, we also addressed the impact of AI on the staffing world (26:18). Finally, Brett talked over the pricing associated with remote staffing (28:01), before winding up on a positive note, covering the impact that offshore staffing has on the local communities where staffers live (29:54).
If you’ve been thinking of adding offshore, virtual staff, but can’t seem to pull the trigger: We’ve got everything you need to know to help you to make a decision. It’s all in this episode of the Non-Eventcast podcast.
Jared Correia, a consultant and legal technology expert, is the host of the Non-Eventcast, the featured podcast of the Above the Law Non-Event for Tech-Perplexed Lawyers.
